Friday, January 21, 2011

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Seymour Hersh unleashed.............

In a speech billed as a discussion of the Bush and Obama eras, New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh delivered a rambling, conspiracy-laden diatribe here Monday expressing his disappointment with President Barack Obama and his dissatisfaction with the direction of U.S. foreign policy.Link

Rand Paul tackles budget head-on.

President Barack Obama will soon lay out his vision for federal spending when he releases his annual budget, setting in motion months of debate over the size and scope of government. Rand Paul is doing the same thing.Link

Monday, January 17, 2011

Sunday, January 16, 2011

$14 trillion-plus debt weighs on Congress.

WASHINGTON – The United States just passed a dubious milestone: Government debt surged to an all-time high, topping $14 trillion — $45,300 for each and everyone in the country.Link

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Nader: Progressive-libertarian alliance.

Prepare for the rise of libertarian progressives. That was the message earlier in the week from trends analyst Gerald Celente, who predicted that the rapid acceleration of wealth into the coffers of the ultra-rich would drive a global youth resistance movement in 2011 and reformat long-held political boundaries. And then there were two. Longtime American politics gadfly Ralph Nader, a man of many ideas almost diametrically opposed by most libertarian conservatives, said Wednesday that he sees a coming convergence of liberals, progressives and libertarian conservatives in the wake of a worsening financial crisis and dogged partisanship that's put the government into gridlock.Link

Congress quietly prepares to renew Patriot Act.

Rep. Rogers (R-MI) has introduced a little-noticed bill that intends to once again renew controversial provisions of the Bush administration's USA Patriot Act that are due to expire this year.Link

Monday, January 10, 2011

3 Years In Prison............








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Ron Paul: The Case for Liberty @ IU Auditorium Bloomington Indiana from Kevin Winkler on Vimeo.

Reagan budget director warns.

The Obama administration's $78 billion cut to US defense spending is a mere "pin-prick" to a behemoth military-industrial complex that must drastically shrink for the good of the republic, a former Reagan administration budget director recently told Raw Story.Link

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Someone give him a job.

New Primus.

100 trillion Zimbabwe bank notes.............

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Western visitors to Zimbabwe are looking for zeros. They're snapping up old, defunct Zimbabwe bank notes, most notably the one hundred trillion Zimbabwe dollar bill, as an economic souvenir.Link

Monday, January 3, 2011

If debt ceiling not raised...........

President Barack Obama's chief economic adviser warned Sunday that "the impact on the economy would be catastrophic" if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling. "This is not a game," Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said. "You know, the debt ceiling is not something to toy with." The government could default on its obligations if it hits the current $14.3 trillion limit on borrowing. Some Republicans are expected to hold the debt ceiling hostage in exchange for tough spending cuts.Link

Just 35 pct.

A record number of Americans oppose the US war in Afghanistan, according to a recently released poll.Link

Sunday, January 2, 2011